Jane Austen Quotes
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.
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I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.
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I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.
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It's certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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I am fascinated by quantum physics.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
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Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
